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Maybe Hillary Clinton really did need a secure email server in the basement of her New York state home to handle her State Department correspondence. Maybe she has turned over all pertinent messages to the National Archive. Maybe she has, or will, make all her official emails available for inspection by the public, as required by law. Maybe she will embrace full transparency.

The wave of anti-government demonstrations spreading across urbanized areas of Egypt caught international leaders flat-footed. Chief among these were American President Barack Obama and his secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, both of whom had made cozying up to Egyptian strongman Hosni Mubarak a hallmark of the U.S.’s Mideast policy. As Obama and Clinton both scrambled to stay abreast of events there and limply cheer on the forces of freedom and democracy, it’s apparent that our national habit of betting on Arab dictators is still alive and well, 35 years after the fall o the shah of Iran.